Exploration +: A Survival Expansion

This mod significantly expands and enhances the content from the Caves & Cliffs updates (versions 1.17-1.20). The game now features new ways to use copper, amethyst, sculk, and goats, along with numerous additional elements including enchantments, food, armor, weapons, and much more.

Expansions of Existing Content

Archaeology

Using mud, terracotta, and three pottery sherds allows you to create clay relics. There are 5 different relics available, each requiring pottery sherds with Explorer, Arms Up, Danger, Miner, and Angler patterns. An archaeology table has also been added, crafted from two pieces of leather and four terracotta blocks. This table serves as a workstation for a new villager profession - the archaeologist. Villagers of this profession offer archaeology-related trades: they exchange armor trims, pottery sherds, and minerals for emeralds.

Goats

When killing goats, there's now a chance to obtain goat pelt. The pelt can be used to reinforce shields, increasing their durability, or to craft goatskin boots. Goatskin boots have high durability and provide +2 armor points. While wearing these boots, the player also receives the jump boost effect.

Amethyst and Copper

Eight amethyst shards in a crafting table create an amethyst gem. This gem is used to craft an amethyst sword - a new weapon that deals 12 damage but instantly shatters after use. Amethyst lenses have also been added, crafted from copper blocks, tinted glass, and an amethyst gem. These can be used to make tinted copper goggles, which provide night vision but tint the screen with an amethyst color. Copper is also used to create an ore pouch that can store up to 9 stacks of various ores, significantly simplifying resource gathering.

Sculk

Echo shards can now be used in a smithing table to transform iron armor into sculk armor. Sculk armor has characteristics similar to netherite armor but becomes invisible at night. It also provides additional protection during nighttime, though it cannot be enchanted.

New Features

Nautilus

Nautiluses can now be found in warm oceans and coral reefs. When killed, they drop nautilus shells. Using a nautilus shell along with blackstone, gold blocks, and an emerald allows you to create a gilded nautilus shell. When used, it shatters, producing a sound that stuns nearby piglins and piglin brutes, enabling the player to quickly escape from danger.

Food Items

• Squids now have a chance to drop raw calamari when killed
• Raw calamari can be cooked in a furnace to produce fried calamari
• Green apples can now be found in villager chests
• Trading one green apple and 8 gold blocks with an archaeologist villager yields an enchanted apple
• Cocoa beans, sugar, and milk can be used to create chocolate, which provides a short but powerful speed boost

World Generation

A new biome has been added - the Applewood Grove, which generates in the Overworld. Trees in this biome consist of applewood - a new wood type. When crafted into planks, applewood resembles oak wood but has a lighter, aged appearance. Sundials can now also be found in meadow and plains biomes. Chests near them contain weapon blueprints - new items that can be used in a smithing table along with wood, cobblestone, iron, gold, diamond, or netherite to craft an axe or sword of the corresponding type.

Other Items

1. A golden feather is crafted from a feather surrounded by gold ingots. While falling, the player can use the golden feather to freeze mid-air, resetting accumulated fall damage before continuing to fall.
2. A bamboo flute is crafted from two pieces of bamboo and an iron ingot. When the flute is in the main hand, the player can use the Z, X, C, V, B, N, M, and K keys to play notes.

Enchantments and Tweaks

Enchantments

• Stun - applies to axes. When attacking entities with this enchantment, they become paralyzed for 2-5 seconds (depending on level)
• Water Aspect - applies to weapons. Deals additional damage to blazes, endermen, ender dragons, snow golems, and magma cubes
• Leech - applies to weapons. When attacking entities, there's a small chance (depending on level) that the attacking player will regenerate health

Tweaks

• Jack o'Lanterns are now crafted using candles instead of torches
• Right-clicking stripped logs with bone meal "restores" them, turning them back into regular logs
• Using a wither rose on an awkward potion in a brewing stand creates a potion of decay, which applies the wither effect to the player (Bedrock Edition compatibility fix)

Crafting Recipes

This mod is designed for survival Minecraft: all recipes can be unlocked, all items are obtainable, and additional advancements have been added for obtaining certain items.